The poll, by the Times Union of Albany and Siena College Upstate Education, shows that a whopping 82 percent of the Empire State’s residents want to abandon the Common Core Standards Initiative in its current form.

“When you get over 80 percent of the people who say that, that’s what people believe,” said pollster Don Levy, the director of the Siena College Research Institute.

Levy suggested that the the survey data is compelling evidence that New Yorkers are convinced that the Common Core standards won’t enhance student achievement.

“It reads as though it’s not a throw it away,” Levy told WNYT. “It’s a take inventory and let’s launch 2.0.”

The poll also found that state residents are perplexed that state education bureaucrats want to use Common Core-aligned tests to rate teachers and school districts. Overwhelmingly, respondents said they don’t care about such ratings, Levy said. Instead, New Yorkers want standardized tests to be used to measure individual student achievement.

A spokesman for the 600,000-member New York state teachers union told the NBC affiliate that the poll is more evidence that the implementation of Common Core throughout the state has been rushed and botched terribly.

In the fall, for the first time, most states and the District of Columbia began implementing the national math and English standards, which attempt to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.

Since then, Common Core has been a slow-motion disaster for New York’s public elementary and secondary schools.

In the fall, thanks to a combination of Common Core and new teacher evaluations, some four- and five-year-old students in New York City were forced to fill in bubbles on multiple-choice, standardized tests. Many of the kids couldn’t even hold a pencil, let alone bubble in. Other continually tried to help their friends get the right answers. (RELATED: INSANE: Common Core Forces New Kindergarteners To Bubble In Test Answers)